An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Dr Sax

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Dr Sax
Jack Kerouac
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An edition of Dr Sax (1959)

Dr Sax

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Doctor Sax (Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.

The novel was written quickly in the improvisatory style Kerouac called “spontaneous prose.” In a letter to Allen Ginsberg dated May 18, 1952, Kerouac wrote, “I’ll simply blow [improvise like a jazz musician] on the vision of the Shadow in my 13th and 14th years on Sarah Ave. Lowell, culminated by the myth itself as I dreamt it in Fall 1948 . . . angles of my hoop-rolling boyhood as seen from the shroud.” In a letter to Ginsberg dated November 8 of the same year, Kerouac admits “Doctor Sax was written high on tea [marijuana] without pausing to think, sometimes Bill [Burroughs] would come in the room and so the chapter ended there, . . .” (ibid, p. 185).

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English

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Cover of: Docteur Sax
Docteur Sax
June 23, 1994, Gallimard, Gallimard Education
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Doctor Sax
Doctor Sax: Faust part three
1987, Grove Press
in English - New Evergreen ed.
Cover of: Dr Sax
Dr Sax
September 12, 1973, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English

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First Sentence

"THE OTHER NIGHT I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street, Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself "Describe the wrinkly tar of this sidewalk, also the iron pickets of Textile Institute, or the doorway where Lousy and you and G.J.'s always sittin and dont stop to think of words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.""

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Mass Market Paperback

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OL9826671M
ISBN 10
0345235576
ISBN 13
9780345235572
Library Thing
67899
Goodreads
156915

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